The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has been working on some research related to private […]
Category: Industry Trends
NASBA’s Private Equity Task Force Has Some Better-Late-Than-Never Questions About PE in the Profession
NASBA’s Private Equity Task Force has released a white paper that’s open for comment until […]
Crowe Told Its People Private Equity Might Be Coming So They Didn’t Have to Find Out Through a WSJ Article
We received a tip this morning: Crowe just got a firmwide email from the chairmen […]
Two Private Equity Firms Are Fighting It Out For International Grant Thornton Dominance
TLDR Grant Thornton UK’s private equity firm grabbed Grant Thornton Germany, Grant Thornton Germany’s CEO […]
Here’s Something New: A Five-Way Merger of Firms
Announced today, “a transformative merger” has taken place between five accounting firms that will turn […]
Firms Are Raising Their Fees and Killing the Billable Hour For Good in 2026
Time to refresh this image we used last time we wrote about Ignition’s US Accounting […]
Wipfli Had “The Talk” With Its People About That Private Equity Rumor (UPDATE)
Wall Street Journal ran a story yesterday on a probable deal between Milwaukee’s Wipfli (IPA […]
Grant Thornton Is Jumping Into Latin American “Nearshore” Outsourcing
Finally, an excuse to use an image of a capybara for an article. Get a […]
More Than Half of UK Firms Surveyed Aren’t Interested in Private Equity
For their headline about a professional services survey from UK law firm Kingsley Napley, Accountancy […]
At This Rate PE Will Have Invested More Money in CPA Firms Than KPMG Makes in a Year
$28.7 billion. That’s the amount of money that’s been poured into CPA firms in the […]
CPA Firms Are No Longer Full of CPAs
Just weeks after the profession got in a tizzy about private equity-owned firms telling staff […]
Move Over Private Equity, the IPO Rush Is Here (Maybe)
That’s according to this article in FT anyway: Accountancy firms courting private equity were falling […]